April 27, 2012

The Happiest Refashion

During my pregnancy with Peanut, I did a weekly maternity series, which I loved so much that I decided to do it with all my future babies. When I saw this series, I instantly fell in love — especially with the idea of wearing the same dress the whole forty weeks.

So when I got pregnant at the end of July last year, I went on the hunt for the perfect dress, but couldn’t find anything. After a couple weeks of hunting, I found an adorable striped maternity top at Gap, and decided to make my own. I bought two shirts (one in my regular size and one a size up), then chopped the larger one off right under the armpits, removed the side ruching, line up the stripes, and sewed the two shirts together. Voila, maternity dress! I loved it. [UPDATE: Full dress tutorial HERE]

The day before I was going to take my 10 week photo, I started bleeding, and, devastatingly, the pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

In the months after last September, I kept the dress at the back of the closet, waiting month after month for when I could use it again. I wore it a few times, but it just made me kind of sad, so it mostly just hung there…waiting.

Congrats Merrick! So so so so so happy for you 🙂 I came across this pregnancy series of photos/video and thought that it fit you perfectly! It may be too late to make a chalkboard like hers, but it looks so amazing! You should give it a go! Here is the link to the video…

I am so happy to read this! I'm behind on reading my fave blogs so I'm just not seeing it.. but I'm so happy! I too had a miscarriage but only at around 4 weeks, last summer. I can't imagine after 10 weeks, I was devastated after only a couple weeks! So happy for you and your family!!!! <3Rachel

I have to say that this has really brought some encouragement to my day! I found out in Feb that I was pregnant with our second child and then in April that I lost the baby. We have been trying and had 2 months of NO and I am becoming so sad from that. This gave me hope that we too will have our time!:) Thank you!!!!

I love this idea of sewing two shirts together and have come across the same problem of trying to find a dress that would be suiting for this project. Did you remove the ruching on both the larger and smaller shirt?

No, I just removed the ruching on the larger shirt since that part was turned into the skirt. I left the ruching on top because I wanted to accommodate my pregnant stomach. If you're not pregnant, then you can take out the ruching on both shirts if you want!